More than 210 million euros in damage, but in the form of cryptocurrencies. A 24-year-old man arrested on January 28, indicted on Friday and placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday, is suspected of having hacked the South Korean platform in Coinrail in 2018.
Judicial information has been opened for organized band flights, organized band whitening and damage to an automated data processing system.
From 26 million to 210 million
“On the occasion of a previous file in the prejudice of” Gatehub “”, another cryptocurrency platform hacked in 2019, “the exploitation of the computer equipment seized had made it possible to discover the track of suspects of a piracy committed in 2018 At the prejudice of Coinrail ”, detailed the public prosecutor.
“The day of the flight, 26 million euros had been stolen, but with the outbreak of the cryptocurrency course, we are today at a damage estimated at 210 million euros,” said Johanna Brousse , vice-procureure leading the cyber section of the prosecution. “The money has not resurfaced, a preliminary survey was entrusted to the anti-cybercrime (OFAC) office,” added the prosecution.
He will not go to Saint-Bart
The main suspect “was checked aboard a vehicle estimated at 700,000 euros and in possession of a watch paid 80,000 euros in cryptocurrency, just before his departure for a stay in Saint-Barthélémy, on the return from which he was arrested” , announces the prosecution. The same source indicates that “have already been seized of luxury objects and sums on bank accounts”.
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The companion of the respondent, “suspected of having contributed to money laundering”, was also indicted on Friday, and was placed under judicial supervision.
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